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I live in East LA, but I am not Latino.
Came across an interesting story by the AP a couple of weeks ago: East L.A. — birthplace of the lowrider, Los Lobos and Oscar de la Hoya — is to Mexican-Americans what Harlem is to the black community. Now it wants to become its own city. Commonly mistaken for a part of Los Angeles, East L.A. is actually an unincorporated section of Los Angeles County, with more than 130,000 people — 96 percent of them Latino — packed into 7.4 square miles. [CLIP] While outsiders often see the area as gang-plagued and poverty-ridden, East L.A. possesses cultural and political symbolism for Mexican-Americans. I live in Silver Lake, right next to…
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Halloween blessings and scary stuff in Griffith Park.
I am a Bad, Bad Blogger. But I’m back, so hold your horses. I must tell you about this fascinating FREE seminar given tomorrow, Sat, October 18, at the convenient Riverside Auditorium, on Riverside Drive, right near the 5 entrance, and across the street from the fountain, where cheap people have their weddings. It’s called: Re-Enchanting The City Conference V: Global Climate Change, and will have Dr. Danny Harvey, who worked with Al Gore on his book, and who won a the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. The emphasis will be on animals, for our park, but heck, we all sweat. It will also include lots of other interesting…
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We don’t have any moose in Griffith Park, but we have middle America.
Do you feel a little bit skeevy this week, having spent way too much time analyzing Dancing with the Stars, and worrying if there is any money left in the market for ME from the market collapse, or wondering how many more Sarah Palin – moose cartoons will pop up this week – and my sympathy is with the mooses? Or is this just me? ;) If this is you, do something good this weekend. I’ve written before about the proposal to designate all of Griffith Park a City Historic-Cultural Monument. Who would actually OBJECT to such a proposal, to protect our park? Duh. I’ll give you one try: 2…
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Tom LaBonge believes there’s a bogeyman in Silver Lake.
EXCLUSIVE REPORT: Inside Silver Lake!! The Silver Lake monster reported in the fifties(?) turned out to be…not so much, so let’s hope this works out as smoothly. As I investigated the composition of the Silver Lake walkway, on the east side of Silver Lake (finding out in the process that instead of soft dirt, it’s dangerous granite) I had several conversations with the LA Bureau of Engineering. Eventually this led to an invitation from the BOE project manager, Michael Haddadin, to examine the new walkway going in Silver Lake right now. (And this is their opportunity to make the new walkway healthy, instead of rock.) This is as close as…
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